Christmas is the only religious date that is an official Federal holiday.
It is sometimes interesting to remind people who are against this that the Puritans banned the celebration of Christmas. This New, Modern, Tolerant Politically Correct Idea has an old, backward, intolerant history.
In fact the sour-faced religious bigots of Political Correctness have a lot in common with the sour-faced religious bigots of Puritan New England. It is not entirely an accident that the outpost of both of these oppressive, established religions is and was the same place: Massachusetts.
And Harvard University.
I think it is the joy of Christmas that really upsets them. Political Correctness like Puritanism wants us to think only of our Evil Nature and of our Sins. Christmas is a gross violation of the sprit of both forms of Puritanism.
On the C Day we tend to think the best of people, including white people.
Those who get paid to make us feel guilty can’t STAND that.
They never could.
#1 by Elizabeth on 12/16/2005 - 1:00 am
Don’t forget “A Christmas Carol.” Dickens caught a lot of critical
flak for writing that one. Scrooge — Ebenezer Scrooge — was a
New Englander in Old England.
“A Christmas Carol” came out about the same time that Victoria married
Albert. Albert is significant in the “typical American Christmas” as
this German prince made Christmas fashionable early in the age of
mass media.
Most of our Christmas customs here in the U.S. are German, one way or
another.